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Judges Quotes

"We're all the harshest judges of ourselves."

Susan Anton, American Actress

"Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times."

Warren E. Burger, American Judge

Judges, Law, Opinion, Public

"Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines."

Alec Baldwin, American Actor

Judges, Party, Washington

"Judges are appointed often through the political process."

Stephen Breyer, American Judge

"We may have lured judges into roaming at large in the constitutional field."

Warren E. Burger, American Judge

"You can, if you wish, think of it like the universe: Each case is a sun, and all the judges, lawyers and administrative personnel represent planets revolving around the case in fixed orbit, never getting closer."

Sol Wachtler, American Judge

Judges, Lawyers, Sun

"There is no dispute that judges need a pay raise."

Robert Duncan, American Poet

"I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed."

Floyd Abrams, American Lawyer

Judges, Opponents, Question, Thinking

"We are selected, but I grew up in California and in San Francisco and there was a system of electing judges."

Stephen Breyer, American Judge

"Judges are the weakest link in our system of justice, and they are also the most protected."

Alan Dershowitz, American Lawyer

Judges, Justice

"As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there."

James Durbin, American Musician

"All of my judges will want to welcome every child into the world, give them a place at the table."

Gary Bauer, American Public Servant

Judges, Want, Will, World

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